What Makes a Live Progressive Town
The article argues growth comes from pushy energetic citizens who invest time and money to boom the town. It urges erecting buildings forming stock companies factories attracting railroads and public improvements to lure people, praising friendly promotion to attract visitors and residents.
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Far West
Dog’s Nose Facts and Civic Observations Across Town
A collection of notes explains why a dog’s nose stays cool through evaporation and links nasal health to temperament and disease. It shifts to social commentary on seasonal youth activities and a critique of a talkative neighbor, ending with reflections on poets and Milton.
His Amazing Memory and the Washington Anecdote
Charles J. Ross discusses a recent divorce suit and uses a humorous memory tale. He quotes an old colored man claiming to have known George Washington. The man recalls steering the Delaware boat and driving the cherry tree hack, illustrating fallible witness memory.
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Young’s Magazine
Treatment For Thoroughpin From Rural New Yorker
A remedy for thoroughpin describes a bath using two drams of tannic acid in one pint of water. The solution should be used to bathe the affected joint three times daily.
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Hogs Follow Cattle Feeding Clover Hay Boosts Pork
A farm note explains that feeding steers with clover hay instead of timothy increases pork output. The observation comes from American agricultural commentary highlighting feed choices and livestock efficiency.
The Southerner and Corn
A Louisville Courier-Journal excerpt extols the southern farmer's life and corn. It describes feeding pigs and progeny, sleeping on a bed of busks, producing gun cotton and cellulose from corn, planting early, dawn field work with a double shovel plow, midwinter corncob pipe smoke, and gratitude for cornmeal while awaiting summer's bounty.
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Mondamin
Louisville Courier-Journal
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